How to Add New Disks Using LVM to an Existing Linux System

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a flexible and advanced option available to manage hard disks in most of the major Linux distributions. It is easy to manage the disks with LVM than the tradition tools like fdisk, parted or gparted.

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Hi nice article. I noticed that you did’t change the partition type to lv i.e. 8e but created a 83 type. I thought we needed to create a 8e type partition to be able to create a physical volume or is this distro specific.